TABOR Defeat Rattles Right Wing

Coloradans passed Referendum C, suspending TABOR (Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights). TABOR is a hodgepodge of “anti-tax” initiatives that have impaired Colorado’s ability to set priorities and respond to crises. Since TABOR’s passage in 1992, Colorado’s public services have severely suffered. A sampling:

Young Republican children years from now will be scared in campground campfires by stories about Bill Owens — the tax-cutting Republican who magically turned into a tax-increase bad guy…and they will not be able to sleep all night.

Douglas Bruce, the author of the 1992 TABOR amendment, also responded maturely:

[Colorado voters] have to accept the consequences of voting themselves back into slavery.

Clearly, the right isn’t used to losing. But they had better get used to it.